Andrea Vargas

Andrea Vargas
Vargas in a 2019 interview
Personal information
Born (1996-05-28) 28 May 1996
San José, Costa Rica
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
100 metres hurdles
Medal record
Representing  Costa Rica
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place2019 Lima100 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place2023 Santiago100 m hurdles

Andrea Carolina Vargas Mena (born 28 May 1996)[2] is a Costa Rican athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She is the 2019 and 2023 Pan American Games champion in the 100 metres hurdles. She is the current national record holder in the 100 metres hurdles. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and was Costa Rica's flag bearer in the opening ceremonies.

Career

Vargas competed at her first running competition when she was four years old and competed for the first time internationally when she was ten.[3]

Vargas competed in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships but did not advance out of the heats.[4] She then won the 100 metres hurdles title at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games and set a new national record.[5] She won another gold medal in the event at the 2018 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics, becoming the first Costa Rican woman to win an event at the Ibero-American Championships.[6]

Vargas represented Costa Rica at the 2019 Pan American Games and won the gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles with a time of 12.82. She was the third person and the first woman to win a medal at the Pan American Games for Costa Rica in athletics.[3] Additionally, she met the Olympic qualifying standards with her time in the semifinals.[7] At the 2019 World Athletics Championships, she advanced into the 100 metres hurdles finals and placed fifth, setting the national record of 12.64 seconds, after also setting national records in the heats and semifinals.[8][9]

Vargas represented Costa Rica at the 2020 Summer Olympics and was selected as one of the flag bearers in the opening ceremonies.[10] She competed in the 100 metres hurdles and won her heat with a time of 12.71 seconds. She ran a time of 12.69 seconds in the semifinals and was the fastest athlete to not advance to the finals.[11] She finished 15th in the 100 metres hurdles semifinals at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and did not advance into the finals.[12]

At the 2023 Pan American Games, Vargas successfully defended her 100 metres hurdles title.[13] She won a bronze medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games.[14]

Personal life

Vargas is the oldest of three children and is coached by her parents. Her younger sister, Noelia Vargas, competes internationally in racewalking.[15] She has one daughter,[16] born in 2015. She graduated from the Universidad Panamericana and passed the national bar examination.[3]

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Costa Rica
2010 Central American and Caribbean
Junior Championships (U17)		 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 2nd Heptathlon (youth) 3972 pts
2011 Central American Junior
and Youth Championships (U18)		 San Salvador, El Salvador 2nd 400 m hurdles (76.2 cm) 66.78
2013 Central American Games San José, Costa Rica 1st 400 m hurdles 1:04.72
World Youth Championships Donetsk, Ukraine 15th (h) 100 m hurdles (76.2 cm) 14.34
2014 Central American Junior Championships Morelia, Mexico 2nd 100 m hurdles 13.72
World Junior Championships Eugene, United States 24th (sf) 100 m hurdles 14.11 (w)
2016 NACAC U23 Championships San Salvador, El Salvador 11th (h) 200 m 25.18
6th 100 m hurdles 13.65
2017 Central American Games Managua, Nicaragua 1st 100 m hurdles 13.12
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 32nd (h) 60 m hurdles 8.34
Central American and Caribbean Games Barranquilla, Colombia 1st 100 m hurdles 12.90
NACAC Championships Toronto, Canada 3rd 100 m hurdles 12.91
Ibero-American Championships Trujillo, Peru 1st 100 m hurdles 13.04
2019 Pan American Games Lima, Peru 1st 100 m hurdles 12.82
World Championships Doha, Qatar 5th 100 m hurdles 12.64
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 9th (sf) 100 m hurdles 12.69
2022 World Championships Eugene, United States 15th (sf) 100 m hurdles 12.82
2023 Central American and Caribbean Games San Salvador, El Salvador 3rd 100 m hurdles 13.02
Pan American Games Santiago, Chile 1st 100 m hurdles 13.09
2025 Central American Championships Managua, Nicaragua 1st 100 m hurdles 13.28
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 47.83
NACAC Championships Freeport, Bahamas 8th 100 m hurdles 13.46
Central American Games Quetzaltenango, Guatemala 1st 100 m hurdles 13.27
2026 Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 10th (h) 100 m hurdles 13.93

References

  1. ↑ "2018 CAC Games bio". Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  2. ↑ Andrea Vargas at World Athletics
  3. 1 2 3 "Vargas's journey from Puriscal to Pan American gold". World Athletics. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
  4. ↑ "60 Metres Hurdles Women - Round 1" (PDF). IAAF. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  5. ↑ Jiménez, Daniel (31 July 2018). "Andrea Carolina Vargas tras ganar oro en Barranquilla: 'Traté de acelerar lo más que pude'". La Nacion (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  6. ↑ "Andrea Vargas supera otra barrera y logra primer oro de mujeres ticas en un Iberoamericano". La Nacion (in Spanish). 25 August 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  7. ↑ Herrera, Walter (8 August 2019). "Andrea Carolina Vargas le da Costa Rica la medalla de oro en los Panamericanos". La Republica. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
  8. ↑ "Historic! Andrea Vargas places fifth at World Championships". The Tico Times. 6 October 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  9. ↑ "Progression NR 100 metres hurdles Costa Rica". Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Andrea Vargas será la quinta mujer abanderada de Costa Rica en Juegos Olímpicos" [Andrea Vargas will be Costa Rica's fifth female flag bearer at the Olympics] (in Spanish). Delfino.cr. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  11. ↑ "Andrea Vargas falls just short of 100m finals at Olympics". The Tico Times. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  12. ↑ Diego, Juan (24 July 2022). "Andrea Vargas logró mejor marca personal de la temporada pero quedó fuera del Mundial". La Nacion (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  13. ↑ "Costa Rica's Vargas Golden Again in Hurdles at 2023 Pan American Games". The Tico Times. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
  14. ↑ Sánchez, Luis Diego (6 July 2023). "Andrea Vargas conquista medalla de bronce en San Salvador 2023". Delfino (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  15. ↑ "Athletics VARGAS Andrea Carolina". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  16. ↑ Monge Quesada, Estefan (15 August 2020). "Andrea Vargas y su hija: la fuente de motivación detrás de sus logros". ESPN (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 May 2026.
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